Nature gives man everything he needs for his life. What does nature give to man? What did man receive from nature?

– this is the entire material world of the Universe, organic and inorganic. But in everyday life, another definition is more often used, in which nature means the natural habitat, i.e. everything that was created without human intervention. Throughout their existence, people have often become the culprits of environmental changes. But the role of nature in people’s lives is also colossal, and it cannot be underestimated.

Habitat

Man is a part of nature, he “grows” from it and exists in it. A certain atmospheric pressure, earth temperature, water with salts dissolved in it, oxygen - all this is the natural state of the planet, which is optimal for humans. It is enough to remove one of the “designer” elements, and the consequences will be disastrous. And any change in nature can cause dramatic changes in the life of all humanity. That is why the statement that nature can exist without man, but man cannot exist without it, is especially relevant.

The main source of consumer goods

Luxury goods are created by people, but we satisfy our primary needs at the expense of nature. It is the world around us that gives us everything we need for existence: air, food, protection, resources. Natural resources are involved in many areas: construction, agriculture, food industry.

We no longer live in caves, but prefer comfortable houses. Before we eat what grows on the earth, we process and cook it. We do not cover ourselves with animal skins, but sew clothes from fabrics obtained by processing natural materials. Undoubtedly, man transforms and improves much of what the planet gives for a comfortable life. Despite all its power, humanity will not be able to develop outside of nature and without the base that it provides us. Even in space, beyond the Earth, people have to use recycled natural goods.

- This is a huge hospital that can cure various ailments. Numerous medicines and cosmetics have been developed based on plants. Often, resources are used in almost their original form to improve health, for example in herbal medicine, hydrotherapy and mud therapy.

Human dependence on natural conditions

For many years, under the influence of climate, topography, and resources, customs, activities, aesthetic views and the character of the population of a particular country were formed. We can safely say that the role of nature underlies many social processes. Even a person's appearance depends on the region from which his ancestors came.

The health of many people depends on weather conditions. Well-being and emotional state may change depending on the phases of the moon, solar activity, magnetic storms and other phenomena. The level of air pollution, its humidity, temperature, oxygen concentration - all this can also affect a person’s well-being. For example, city residents, after relaxing by the river, note an improvement in their physical and psychological condition.

Cities with over a million people, modern cars, the latest technologies - looking at all this, it seems that man has learned to successfully exist outside of nature. In fact, humanity still depends on conditions that it cannot change. For example, its economy depends on the quantity and condition of natural resources on the territory of a state. Weather conditions determine the characteristics of the buildings of a settlement and living conditions. Such a variety of national cuisines arose as a result of the climatic characteristics of the regions, as well as the flora and fauna.

Aesthetic and scientific significance

Nature acts as a source of a wide variety of information that helps build relationships with the outside world. Thanks to the data that the planet stores, we can know who inhabited the Earth thousands and millions of years ago. Today we can, if not prevent natural disasters, then at least protect ourselves from them. And man has even learned to direct some phenomena to his advantage. and human learning. The child is introduced to the world around him, taught to protect, protect and ennoble it. Without this, no educational process is possible.

The importance of nature in cultural life cannot be ignored. We contemplate, admire, enjoy. It is a source of inspiration for writers, artists and musicians. This is what artists have sung and will continue to sang in their creations. Many are sure that the beauty and harmony of nature even has a healing effect on the body. Although the spiritual component is not the first necessity for the life of the population, it plays a vital role in the life of society.

We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way back home, the way out of the prison of our own mind.

We have forgotten what stones, plants, and animals continue to remember. We have forgotten how to be - how to be calm, to be ourselves, how to be where life flows - Here and Now.

As soon as you direct your attention to something natural, to something that began to exist without human intervention, you enter a state of connection with Being, in which all nature exists. Directing your attention to a stone, tree or animal does not mean thinking about it at all - simply perceiving it, holding it within your awareness.

Then something of his essence enters into you. You begin to feel how calm it is, and when you feel this, the same calm arises within you. You feel how deeply its roots go into the Existence - it is in complete agreement with what it is and where it is. Understanding this, you also come to a place within yourself where there is deep peace.

When walking or relaxing in nature, honor this kingdom by being completely present in it. Stay calm. Look. Listen. See how holistic every living being, every plant is. Unlike people, they never split into two. They don't live through their mental self-image, so they don't need to defend or inflate it. They don't even care about it at all. This is what a deer is. This is the pale yellow daffodil.

In nature, everything exists not only in complete unity with itself, everything exists in complete unity with everything else. No one isolates himself from the integral structure, claiming a separate existence like “I” and the rest of the universe.

Contemplation of nature can free you from this “I”, the main creator of troubles.

Bring your awareness to the subtle sounds of nature - the rustling of leaves in the wind, the falling of raindrops, the buzzing of insects, the first bird trill at dawn. Give yourself completely to listening. Behind the sounds there is something much more - a holiness that cannot be comprehended by thought.

If you perceive nature only through the mind, through thoughts, through thinking, then you cannot feel its liveliness, its vitality and givenness. You see only the form and are not aware of the life inside this form - and this is a holy sacrament. Thought reduces nature to the level of a commodity, an object of consumption. She uses it in pursuit of profit or for the purpose of gaining knowledge, or for some other utilitarian purpose. An ancient forest becomes lumber, a bird becomes a scientific program, a mountain becomes an object to be bored with adits or conquered.

When you perceive and become aware of nature, let there be intervals without thoughts, without reason. When you approach nature in this way, it will respond to you and participate in the evolution of both human and planetary consciousness.

Houseplants in your home - have you ever really looked at them? Have you allowed this familiar yet mysterious creature we call a plant to teach you its secrets? Have you noticed how deeply calm it is? What field of silence is it surrounded by? The moment you become aware of the emanation of calm and peace emanating from this plant, it becomes your teacher.

Observe any animal, flower or tree and see how it abides in Existence. It is itself. It has incredible dignity, innocence and holiness. But in order for you to see this, you need to go far beyond your mental habit of naming and labeling. The moment you look beyond the mental labels, you feel an ineffable dimension of nature that cannot be comprehended through thinking or sense perception. This is harmony, the holiness of which is lowered and permeated not only by all nature as a whole, but which also exists within you.

The air you breathe is nature, as is the process of breathing itself.

Bring your attention to your breathing and realize that you are not doing it. This is the breath of nature. If you had to remember to breathe, you would soon die, and if you tried to stop your breathing, nature would win.

By becoming aware of your breath and keeping your attention on it, you reconnect with nature in the most intimate and powerful way. This action is healing and deeply inspiring. It causes a shift in your consciousness from the conceptual world of thoughts to the inner realm of unconditional consciousness.

You need nature as a teacher to help you reunite with Being. But not only does nature need you, it needs you too.

You are not separate from nature. We are all part of the One Life, manifesting itself in countless forms throughout the universe, forms that are all closely intertwined and completely interconnected. When you understand this holiness, beauty, unimaginable silence and dignity in which a flower or tree exists, then you add something to both the flower and the tree. Through your understanding, your awareness, nature also comes to know itself. She comes to know her own beauty and holiness - through you!

Nature exists in a pristine and pure calm that preceded the appearance of thought. And the tree, and the flower, and the bird, and the stone are not aware of their own beauty and holiness. When people become quiet, they go beyond thought. In the silence behind thought, another dimension is added - the dimension of knowledge and awareness.

Nature can bring you peace and tranquility. This is her gift to you. When you perceive nature and connect with it in this field of silence, then your awareness begins to permeate this field. This is your gift to nature.

From this short article you will learn what nature gives to modern man and how to use these priceless gifts.

What can a person do without nature?

In fact, if there were no nature, a person would have nothing - he simply would not be able to live on earth. After all, what does nature give to man? Almost everything. Nature feeds and clothes us - we take all food and clothing from nature. Fruits, vegetables, grains, meat and milk - these staple products are of completely natural origin. You may object: well, when it comes to clothes, everything is not so simple, and isn’t it man who creates different drinks? So what does nature have to do with it? However, think carefully: what are these clothes made of? Again, from natural materials, but subjected to chemical and physical processing. In the same way, without natural materials it would be impossible to create electricity - where then to get the raw materials? Without minerals, it is impossible to develop the industrial materials, fuel, and gas so necessary for modern humanity. Without the various substances found in nature, the chemistry so praised today would simply be impossible.

And nature also gave us the house in which we live, the air we breathe, and finally, life itself. Everything that a person has received, without exception, comes from nature. And in this sense, it can be called with a capital letter - Nature. What does nature give to man? Everything for a long and happy life, in fact, without nature there would be neither you, my dear readers, nor me. Another question is how we use it.

On the attitude towards natural resources

And man spends his natural gifts too wastefully. He doesn’t take care of them at all and exploits them mercilessly. What does this threaten us with? The simplest example: if all water bodies become polluted, there will be no fish left. If there are no fish, the birds will have nothing to eat, and so on down the chain it will reach humans. And a person cannot live without good fish, and it is impossible to provide even a relatively small part of the population with artificially grown fish. But a person cannot eat artificial foods all his life - sooner or later this will lead to serious genetic abnormalities, sick children will be born who themselves will be unable to give birth to healthy offspring, and will they be able to give birth at all? And it all starts with the fact that we do not care about our nurse - nature.

In fact, not much needs to be done - to develop good technologies for processing waste so as not to throw it into rivers, lakes, or bury it in the ground. The most important thing is that such technologies are real and it is quite possible to begin to implement them now. Residents of many European countries have already understood this and are protecting their natural resources. For example, the Finns, if they cut down a forest, plant twice as much. After all, something can happen to young shoots, so this decision is very wise. What are they doing here? They just cut them down and don’t plant new trees.

Russia is the richest country, we have a huge amount of natural reserves, but they need to be maintained, otherwise they could run out very soon. Take care of nature, start small - don’t litter, don’t pollute our forests. If everyone thinks at least a little about nature, we will preserve and increase our wealth.

Answer from Angela[guru]
What does nature give to man?

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Take care of the Earth!
Take care
Lark at the blue zenith,
Butterfly on dodder leaves,
There are sun glares on the path...
Take care of young shoots
At the green festival of nature,
Sky in stars, ocean and land
And a soul that believes in immortality, -
All destinies are connected by threads.
Take care of the Earth!
Take care...
Nature is our common home. Nature is life. If we take care of her, she will reward us,
and if we kill, we will die ourselves.
Still here:

Answer from Mashenka Romanova[newbie]
nature is the beginning of life

Answer from Masha Lopukhina[newbie]
Man lives thanks to nature. Nature gives us everything: the clean air we breathe, the wood we build the houses in which we live. We get heat from wood and coal, which nature also gives us. Almost all of our home furniture is also made of wood. We pick mushrooms and berries in the forest, where we relax and breathe clean air.
The natural world is wonderful and mysterious. Listen to the murmur of river streams, the singing of birds, the rustling of grass, the hum of bumblebees, and you will understand this. Have you seen the sun at dawn? The sun turns into a small, but still, holiday, any ordinary and everyday day of a person. When the sun is above us, it becomes better, warmer around us and in ourselves.
Our fairy forests are amazing! And the glades are real “greenhouses of nature”! Look carefully at every new flower, every strange blade of grass, and you will be able to feel their charming power. Climbing to the top of the hill, you feel as if you are rising above the planet. Nature appears here in its clear harmony and beauty. The sun, forest, sandy shore, water, wind... bring us great joy.
The sages and dreamers of the past more than once tried to list the “wonders of the world” - miracles created by nature and created by human hands. They talked about seven miracles, searched for and found the eighth, but, it seems, no one ever mentioned the miracle - the only one known to us in the Universe. This miracle is our planet itself, together with the atmosphere - the container and guardian of life. And while it continues to remain the only, incomparable, riddle of the birth and history of the planet itself, the riddle of the origin of the life of the mind, the future destinies of civilization. This is a miracle of nature. Man is a part of it. Nature provides food for man. Wind and sun, forest and water give us common joy, shape our character, make it softer and more poetic. People are inextricably linked by nature with thousands of threads. Human life depends on the state of nature.
Protecting nature concerns us all. We all breathe the same air of the Earth, drink water and eat bread, the molecules of which continuously participate in the endless cycle of substances. And we ourselves are thinking particles of Nature. This places a huge responsibility for its safety on each of us, each and every one without exception. Each of us can and must contribute to the fight for the preservation of Nature, and therefore life on Earth.

Answer from Gulnas Zubairova[newbie]
she gives us everything: air and food, etc.

Our world was created by God, and everything in it is indescribably beautiful. Everything has its place and its order in this world, for the Lord Almighty is the God of order, not disorder. Every living being has its own purpose or role of existence in this world. Everything that exists brings to the world its unique fragrance, a vibration determined from Above. One complements everything, and everything complements one, and everything cannot be complete (integral) without one, and one without everything. This is the Will of God, and this is the principle of Unity and Beauty of this world. In a meadow, flowers alone cannot be the completion of beauty without the moth, grass, trees, animals, birdsong and beautiful clouds in the sky. A flowing stream cannot be fully beautiful without the croaking of frogs, nearby willows and the shining Sun high in the sky. Everything in our world is diverse, beautiful, and everything that exists is in harmony with each other and breathes in the same rhythm with the breath of God. Nature is God's gift to this world and it contains many hidden secrets and great miracles. In nature, God's Will always speaks. Nature does not depart from its nature. She always shows her Fidelity to God - in Service to the world, in contrast to man. God is the Word (primordial sound or primary vibration), and everything came from the Word. God has a holy name. This means that all nature in the Universe, and also on our planet Earth, has a Divine origin (origin), and it is Blessed.

In the age of ignorance and passion, man has lost the ability to hear with the Heart. We do not hear what our conscience, the “neighbor” person, the flower and the Will of God tell us. Our everyday life drags us into a routine and our attention is drawn to an unimportant (temporary) momentary hobby. We do not find time to pay attention to the real, the Eternal and to look at the beauty that surrounds us. Many of us have forgotten the last time we admired the Blessed Nature: white clouds, tall trees and starry skies. We have forgotten the smell of freshly cut grass and do not pay attention to the butterfly flying nearby. We don’t listen to the rustling of leaves or the wind saying something. Indeed, in the golden age (satya yuga), people understood the silent language of silence, and they had the ability to hear everything that exists. How distant stars talk to each other, and how angels communicate with God. Like a flower with its aroma invites bees and butterflies to drink the nectar.

What nature gives us

Blessed nature always gives us its gentle gentle breath, filling or complementing us with itself. This is how God arranged it and this is His Will, where it is common for every living being to give themselves for the common Good.

In our time, to a greater extent, humanity has moved away from its nature, and it is not able to complement and spiritualize its environment, as living nature does. A person is in the incompleteness of his Life. He has lost his closeness with nature. He has closed his eyes, his Heart, and by doing so he does not fulfill the Will of the Almighty. A person does not realize the importance of closeness with nature and does not understand what it can do: heal our body and Soul, fill us with vitality and inspire us to live, comfort and caress, enlighten and give wise advice, and much more.

Our ancestors did not blindly worship Holy Nature and its elements. They knew the use and benefits of this. Worship does not mean being in slavery, it means showing respect, reverence, attention, thanksgiving, etc. We must reconsider our relationship with nature and restore a close relationship with it.

Intimacy only happens with trust and openness. First of all, we need to turn our gaze to nature and stand before it one on one (heart to heart), carefully observing (contemplating) what is happening. With the experience of communicating with nature, relationships will appear.

Nature will never offend us, humiliate us, or offend us, unlike an ignorant person. It is easier to build a relationship with her than with a person, because she is pure, complete and Holy Blessed. Nature will help us, by its example, to gain spiritual resilience (state) and become a truly prudent person. In these friendly relationships, at some point pure, true intimacy will happen, and an energy-informational exchange with nature will occur. Blessed nature will fill us with itself to the depths of our souls and the secret habitats of the Living God, and we will fill nature with ourselves. At this moment we become like nature, the world and God. This is the nature of Life of everything that exists.

Humanity, due to its madness, interferes with nature. Modifies plant species at the genetic level, thereby desecrating the Holy Blessing of the plant kingdom, and this has already led to disastrous consequences (the appearance of incurable diseases). Destroys the animal world, where many species are on the verge of extinction. Excessive depletion of natural resources and this affects climate change on Earth. Blessed nature must not be disturbed. Everything that exists is protected by the right to exist. This is the Will of God.

God gave us beautiful nature and ordered us to use it wisely, but He also gave us responsibility towards it. Everything that exists has consciousness, which means that nature is alive and intelligent, just like humans. Everything in nature is interconnected. One cannot exist without everything, and everything cannot exist without one. One supports all, and all supports one. The sun gives light and warmth to everything on the planet, the ocean gives life to many aquatic inhabitants, gives life to the plant world. The plant world nourishes insects, animals and humans. The atmosphere protects all life on earth from excess heat and various radiations. This is the Will of the Almighty. That's how it is. If something is excluded from nature or one of the links is removed, this will lead to the death of everything. For example: if the Sun stops shining, or deprives the Earth of its atmosphere, then the death of all life on planet Earth will occur. Even if some small insect disappears, over time it will have a painful effect on everyone. Humanity does not understand simple truths, does not see the relationship of one with another and violates the Holy order (harmony), and this has a deplorable effect on all living beings. Take care and love God-blessed nature, and it will reward us, because like a dear mother, it tirelessly takes care of us. In the morning, at sunrise, nature will wake us up with the singing of birds, and in the evening, at sunset, nature will rock us to sleep under the starry sky with the singing of crickets.

From this follows the conclusion:

• nature is Blessed and has a Divine origin;
• nature is a gift from Above and a reflection of God in this world;
• she is pure and supports the environment with her Holy Breath;
• nature has consciousness (soul), which means it is alive and has the right to exist like all living beings;
• blessed nature is a humble teacher and can ennoble and humanize us with its presence; with her it is easier for us to find a common language and enter a state of peace;
• everything in nature is interconnected, and insane human intervention in nature threatens the death of all forms of life on earth;
• nature is protected by God and protected by law;
• Humanity is punished for violating the order in nature.